May 29, 2008
Today was Convocation day at the University. Apparently convocations are called commencements for most of you in the US. But long story short they orginated at Oxford, if Wikipedia is to be believed, meaning originally a meeting of the Alumni.
The pomp surrounding the event was fascinating to participate in as opposed to simply watching. Watching is incredibly boring from past experience. When it is your graduation it just seems so much more fascinating. Moreso when the Honourary Doctorate is given to someone who is an interesting speaker.
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Posted by Jon W
May 26, 2008
With the approach of summer and getting my computer functioning better I have been on Blog burnout. This means my posting has dropped way off as I have gotten a bit tired.
So last week I have been working on the information needed to get our visas in order. Or non-visas as Canadians do not need a visa to enter the USA. We need an Entry Clearance equivalent. So what this means is we need a card from the University showing we are accepted.
Not a problem there.
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Posted by Jon W
May 23, 2008
Well yesterday I learned something valuable so I am going to pass it along.
If you are having problems, where no matter what video game you are playing on the computer, after a while the computer just shuts off after a few minutes here is a simple solution.
Go buy yourself a can of air. I sprayed my processor fan particularly. And what do you know it worked like a charm, computer working again, and I am pleased.
Thank you, thank you, no applause just throw money. 
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Posted by Jon W
May 19, 2008
I went WW2 today and bought Axis and Allies the Video game.
Then I got Tora, Tora, Tora. A movie from 1970, featuring a great cast with a sympathetic portrayal of both sides leading up to Pearl Harbor.
To quote the guy from Back to the Future 2.
“Great flick, great friggin flick.”
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Posted by Jon W
May 18, 2008
Previously I brought up the correlation between the Nephite population, the Lamanites, the Romano British and the Anglo Saxons.
In the year of our Lord, 449… In [this] time the Angles or Saxons came to Britain at the invitation of King Vortigern in three long ships, and were granted lands in the eastern part of the island on the condition that they protected the country: nevertheless, their real intention was to subdue it.1
This is Bede’s description, 200 years later, of how the Germanic tribe came to Britain to defeat the “cowardly” Britains.
When the Lehites arrived to the land of promise there appears to be an equivilent population, or even a little less than what is described by Bede.
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Posted by Jon W
May 15, 2008
It appears that 2008 is the year of the sickie birthday.
I had the first one of the year and I was sick, it was not too bad but just a combination of mid semester sickness. My 4th and youngest son immediately after got the same thing, opened presents with only immediate family.
March, my second oldest, gets sick, pale as a ghost for his birthday. Fearing to spread it to anyone else his birthday is spread over a couple of days.
Then the whopper.
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May 13, 2008
For centuries the records of history that we had taught us that the Angles and Saxons (along with the Jutes but nobody talks about them) Germanic tribes landed on what was then Brittania hired as mercenary help against the Picts of Scotland for the Romano British. The British made a fatal error however, fighting a war with enemy surrogates lead to the Saxons and Angles to decide that Roman Britain was a pretty nice place.
So they started a wholesale slaughter which only one murky name stopped briefly the onslaught but by 600 AD saw the “British” pushed back to Wales and Cornwall and northern England. While the Angles and Saxons repopulated the island’s rich farm lands creating (eventually) England.
At least that is the story told by early sources such as The Roman British Gildas and the Saxon monk Bede. It is also recounted in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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